Dance

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet

Director and choreographer Matthew Bourne, music Sergei Prokofiev

Flamenco Tablao

TuFlamenco

Solitary

Duane Cooper and Blake Habermann

Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion Freak Show

Creator, writer, director, costume designer Jean Paul Gaultier

Sharon Eyal / Gai Behar Live in London: RAK MG LGD

Creator Sharon Eyal, co-creator Gai Behar, music Ori Lichtik, Koreless

Sharon Eyal / Gai Behar Live in London (Young Turks week)

Creator Sharon Eyal, co-creator Gai Behar, music Koreless, Jamie xx

Hive City Legacy

Busty Beatz, Lisa Fa'alafi, Yami 'Rowdy' Lovenberg and a league of Extraordin...

Royal Ballet School Summer Performance

Maggie the Cat

Trajal Harrell

Flamenco Meets Jazz

Music by Dorantes, Tim Ries, Adam Ben Azra and The Rolling Stones

Sara Baras—Sombras

Direction and choreography Sara Baras, musical direction and composition Keko...

Hobson’s Choice

Choreography David Bintley, music Paul Reade

The Rite of Spring & Left Unseen

Choreography Jeanguy Saintus, Amaury Lebrun, music Igor Stravinsky, Alva Noto...

Boy Toy

Devised and choreographed by William Spencer Music by Léo Delibes reimagined ...

[Un]Leashed: Lyric Pieces / Sense of Time / Peter and the Wolf

Choreography Jessica Lang, Didy Veldman, Ruth Brill, music Edvard Grieg, Gabr...

The Mother

Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen, choreography / director Arthur Pita

The Suit + Ingoma

Choreography Cathy Marston, Mthuthulezi November

Margot Fonteyn: A Celebration

Choreography Mikhail Fokine, Marius Petipa, Kenneth MacMillan and Frederick A...

Cinderella-in-the-round

Choreography Christopher Wheeldon, music Sergei Prokofiev

San Francisco Ballet Programme D: Bound To / Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem / Anima Animus

Choreography Christopher Wheeldon, Trey McIntyre, David Dawson

San Francisco Ballet Programme C: Bespoke / Hummingbird / Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

Choreography Stanton Welch, Liam Scarlett, Justin Peck

The Firebird / A Month in the Country / Symphony in C

Choreography Mikhail Fokine, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, music Strav...

Them / Us

Them: choreographed by BalletBoyz Dancers in collaboration with Charlotte Poo...

San Francisco Ballet Programme B: The Infinite Ocean / Snowblind / Björk Ballet

Choreography Edwaard Liang, Cathy Marston, Arthur Pita

Sergei Polunin: Rasputin

Choreography Yuka Oishi, music Kirill Richter

Silent Lines

Russell Maliphant

San Francisco Ballet Programme A: Shostakovich Trilogy

Choreography Alexei Ratmansky, music Dmitri Shostakovich

Sergei Polunin: Fraudulent Smile, Paradox and Sacré

Choreography Ross Freddie Ray, Yuka Oishi, music Kroke, Stravinsky, Chopin

Viviana Durante new ENBS Director of Dance

English National Ballet School has appointed of Italian-born Viviana Durante as its new Director of Dance for the 2019/2020 academic year.

Bourne's Romeo and Juliet gets cinema release

Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet for New Adventures, filmed live at Sadler's Wells in London, is to be screened in cinemas nationwide from 22 October 2019.

World première in Birmingham Royal Ballet autumn season

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s autumn 2019 season will feature a balance of classical and contemporary ballet including a world première and a partnership with Ballet Black.

The non-wedding of the year comes to the North East

Gracefool Collective tours the region with This Is Not a Wedding.

English National Ballet moves into new home

English National Ballet kicks off its 2019–20 season rehearsals from its new home on London City Island.

ENB tours three ballets for 70th anniversary

Autumn 2019 will see English National Ballet present three ballets, Cinderella, Le Corsaire and Nutcracker, on tour in its 70th anniversary season.

International Dance Festival returns to Billingham

The Billingham International Folklore Festival of World Dance returns in August when ten countries—Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Georgia, Ireland, India, Slovakia, South Korea and the United Kingdom—will be represented.

Just Us Dance Theatre's new hip-hop dance experience

Just Us Dance Theatre's new hip-hop contemporary dance experience Born To Manifest will have an autumn première at Jerwood DanceHouse, Ipswich and a UK tour.

Candoco collaborates with alt-J vocalist Joe Newman

Candoco Dance Company is to collaborate with choreographer Theo Clinkard and Joe Newman of Mercury Prize-winning band alt-J in brand new work Hot Mess, marking the first time Newman has composed music for the stage.

Ipswich DanceHouse announces more 10th anniversary events

Jerwood DanceHouse, Ipswich will feature Richard Alston Dance and Ballo Arthur Pita plus a dance-star-studded fundraising gala in its tenth anniversary celebrations.

Music, dance and VR at Darbar Festival

The Darbar Festival is to return with a season of music and dance this autumn, and a new 360 Video Festival of Music launching on 25 December.

BRB creates Dreams for ballet students on the road

After two events in Birmingham, Birmingham Royal Ballet is taking its Dreams project on the road, allowing ballet students of all ages to perform alongside some of BRB’s company dancers in a special public performance of a much-loved ballet.

Aakash Odedra and Hu Shenyuan collaborate on Samsara

An international dance collaboration between two soloists will open in Melbourne and Shanghai in March 2020, coming to the UK June.

The Place awarded Creative Europe grant

The Place has secured a €200,000 Creative Europe grant towards a €333,000 project with three EU partners, which will test a new model of developing dance performance for young audiences.

St Petersburg Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake in Dublin

Following two seasons at the London Coliseum, St Petersburg Ballet Theatre is to perform Swan Lake at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin this autumn.

ENB promotions and new joiners for new season

Tamara Rojo CBE, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, has announced promotions within the company and new joiners for the 2019/2020 season.

Dance Consortium presents Acosta Evolution tour

Dance Consortium has announced a new spring 2020 tour dates for Evolution across the UK for Carlos Acosta's Cuban company Acosta Danza.

Candoco dances up a Hot Mess in the Midlands

Candoco Dance Company is to collaborate with choreographer and designer Theo Clinkard and Joe Newman of Mercury Prize-winning band alt-J on Hot Mess which will be performed in Coventry and Nottingham.

Barbican Plymouth announces new Diverse Dance team members

Barbican Theatre in Plymouth has announced three new members of its FUSE team, Kay Crook, Daisy Harrison and Emma Pendle, who will work with Suzie West to deliver the second year of the FUSE Diverse Dance project.

Children's summer school with balletLORENT

Newcastle’s balletLORENT is to hold a dance summer school for 7- to 11-year-olds.

The autumn and winter season at Dance City

Newcastle’s Dance City has announced its season from September to December 2019.

ENB at the Bolshoi

English National Ballet performed Akram Khan’s Giselle at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow for the first time in its history.

Dancing for Life - The Place is 50

This autumn will mark 50 years since The Place was founded by Robin Howard and Robert Cohan in 1969.

Dance Manchester 'blends' into Company Chameleon

Dance Manchester, the dance development organisation for Greater Manchester, is to transfer its remit to Company Chameleon, an organisation it helped to seed 12 years ago.

Birmingham Royal Ballet offers students “unique” opportunity

Birmingham Royal Ballet is taking its Dreams project on the road, offering a “unique” opportunity for ballet students to perform on stage alongside some of the company’s dancers in a public performance.

Birmingham Royal Ballet takes flight with city’s airport

Birmingham Royal Ballet and Birmingham Airport began a year-long partnership with an event showcasing the talent of the BRB programme Freefall Dance Company.

Bintley honoured by BRB and promotions announced

Hobson’s Choice closed Birmingham Royal Ballet's 2018–19 season at Sadler’s Wells, the company's final performances with David Bintley as Director.

Rambert wins Venice prize for new MIF show

Rambert has won the Fedora – Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet for Invisible Cities, to première as part of this year's Manchester International Festival this month.

ENB's Swan Lake in-the-round returns to Royal Albert Hall

English National Ballet will return to the Royal Albert Hall next summer (17-28 June 2020) with Derek Deane’s production of Swan Lake in-the-round.

Billy Zane narrates film of WWI avante-garde theatre piece

Hollywood superstar Billy Zane will narrate a 50-minute arthouse production of Vernon Lee and Maxwell Armfield's The Ballet of Nations: A Present-Day Morality from 1915.

Aakash Odedra's Leicester-based adult summer school

Aakash Odedra Company has announced its 2019 adult summer school line-up at venues across Leicester from Monday 29 July to Friday 2 August.

Akademi presents South Asian dance competition

As part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, Akademi will present the South Asian dance competition NAVADAL at the Southbank Centre plus Rising Stars, an evening of performance curated by Vidya Patel.

Maliphant and Seutin are next NYDC Guest Artistic Directors

National Youth Dance Company has announced its next two Guest Artistic Directors to be Russell Maliphant (2019/20) and Alesandra Seutin (2020/21).

Liam Scarlett's Swan Lake reimagined in book form

Oberon Books is to publish a behind-the-scenes look at Liam Scarlett’s 2018 production of a classic ballet for The Royal Ballet in Swan Lake: Reimagining a Classic.

Northern Ballet celebrates 50th anniversary

Northern Ballet will mark its 50th anniversary with three world premières, a one-off Anniversary Gala featuring guest stars and tours of the company’s best-loved productions.

Sambé promoted to Principal with Royal Ballet

Lisbon-born Marcelino Sambé has been promoted to Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet.

Increase in students taking GCSE Dance

One Dance UK has reported an increase in the number of students taking GCSE Dance.

Every Body Can Dance: #WorldBalletDay 2019

World Ballet Day will be on Wednesday 23 October on Facebook, YouTube and live at the Royal Opera House.

NYB 2019 season: Wonderlands

National Youth Ballet's 2019 season, led by interim artistic directors Ruth Brill and Drew McOnie, will showcase seven new works by emerging choreographers with performances at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham and Sadler’s Wells.

Kish to retire from Royal Ballet

Principal dancer Nehemiah Kish will retire from The Royal Ballet at the end of the 2018/19 season after nine years with the company.

Next Brill step for Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer

Birmingham Royal Ballet first artist Ruth Brill is to leave the company at the end of the 2019 season to concentrate on her choreography career.

London Children's Ballet's anniversary revival

To celebrate its 25th anniversary season, London Children's Ballet will revive Ballet Shoes at the Peacock Theatre in London.